Mining Incidents

Pads Branch WasherCoal

Chavies, Perry County, KY · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519656
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2012–2017
Latest incident
Apr 2017
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2017 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was inserting an auger into the box of a highwall beam and got left index finger caught between the auger and box.

2013 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping remove a hydraulic cylinder from a storage rack and as he reached to remove a block of wood from in front of the cylinder, the cylinder shifted & slid on the forks of the forklift and struck him behind the left knee causing laceration & bruising.

2012 · 1 incident

Fall from ladders

EE was climbing ladder to measure for the installation of a fitting in a water tank when bottom of the ladder slipped out and EE fell striking his forehead on a conduit bracket on the wall required 7 stitches.